D-PLACE - Variable Class differentiation: primary [EA066]

Class differentiation: primary [EA066]

Description: The degree and type of class differentiation, excluding purely political and religious statuses. See also "Class differentiation: secondary," as some societies exhibit important features of two different types of class differentation.

Codes [click for detailed code description]

Code #	Code
1	Absence of significant class distinctions among freemen (slavery is treated in EA070), ignoring variations in individual repute achieved through skill, valor, piety, or wisdom
2	Wealth distinctions, based on the possession or distribution of property, present and socially important but not crystallized into distinct and hereditary social classes
3	Elite stratification, in which an elite class derives its superior status from, and perpetuates it through, control over scarce resources, particularly land, and is thereby differentiated from a property-less proletariat or serf class
4	Dual stratification into a hereditary aristocracy and a lower class of ordinary commoners or freemen, where traditionally ascribed noble status is at least as decisive as control over scarce resources
5	Complex stratification into social classes correlated in large measure with extensive differentiation of occupational statuses

To display the datapoints on a tree, select a language phylogeny or classification here then click "submit".

You may combine this variable with a different variable by selecting on in the list below and clicking "Submit".

Dataset:

Murdock et al. 1999 'Ethnographic Atlas'

Variable:

Class differentiation: primary [EA066]

Description:

The degree and type of class differentiation, excluding purely political and religious statuses. See also "Class differentiation: secondary," as some societies exhibit important features of two different types of class differentation.

Values:

1	Absence of distinctions	538
2	Wealth distinctions	217
3	Elite stratification	40
4	Dual stratification	228
5	Complex stratification	86